Hacker, Artist?
Here is an interesting arcticle which not only states the main differences among hackers, but also pokes at the idea of Hackers as creators.
Confessions of an Engineering Washout
This is a very interesting article which I think all college students should read. It talks about why many students leave their engineering degrees and persue ones easier in nature. Take the time to read this.
Then Think about the article.
Then Think about the article.
They Do Exist
For decades not scentists have been studying dead Giant Squid that have washed up on shors around the world, but have never seen one live until today. Take a look here. This is really Interesting considering these babys can get up to 100 yards long.
OCC Space Shuttle NASA tribure Bike
Was reverted to this page by a fellow Rocket friend It It really is a great tribute to NASA. Make sure you check out the pics along with the site. If you have the time I reccomend trying to watch the episode, even if you dont give a rats batoot about bikes. You remember the post In Memory of... don't you.
Favicon's Rule
Readers you may have noticed that SyNONYM now has an icon associated with the site before the URL. (It's called a favicon just FYI) It took a hellish amount of time to get working, but I for sure think it was worth it, got to love the Cockat00.
The Sun and the Sky put a Smile on your face
Ok well its over, The sun has now come out and the heat has also followed. PV did not get thit that bad, the water was no problem as PV is ontop of a hill. The wind did cause some trees to fall and branches to break, shingles to fly off the roofs. Other then that everything is fine.
Looks like I found NEMO in the end.
Looks like I found NEMO in the end.
Through The Window
I got internet through a free aol dial up number for houston, its connected at 12.5Kbs so Ill keep this short. I can see the clouds building up to the south east, Looks to be about 120 miles away or there abouts. In the past hour the wind has picked up a whole lot, and the temperate has dropped at least seven degrees. The room is basicly as ready as it's going to be. Chris and I have enough supplies to last a while. Good thing we went to the grocery store when we did. Anyway this is probly the last time I'll be able to get on for a while. Oh and in case I don't get to talk to you, Happy Birthday Mom.
Into the Twirling Vortex of Terror
Well the storm is approaching and we are now getting ready for it, many have already left for more northern cities. I highly doubt I will have internet for much longer and really want to get this out before it goes out. As of right now everything is fine and classes have been canceled for the rest of the week. Luckily PV is on some of the highest ground around hopefully that should help with the flooding. I may even be moving further north myslef, Without a doubt PV will be hit in some fashion. I'll get back on when I can and update what I can.
keep everyone in TX in your thoughts.
Hopefully it all comes out ok hey DORI and MARLIN made it through, I bet I can, (wait they had gills and fins) hmmmmmmm.
keep everyone in TX in your thoughts.
Hopefully it all comes out ok hey DORI and MARLIN made it through, I bet I can, (wait they had gills and fins) hmmmmmmm.
Google Blog Search
Here is a neat new Beta Version that Google has been working on that searches only blogs. Give it it a try on some of my old entries it works pretty well. There is also a link on the nav bar down the page.
Peace, Love, Rockets, and Farewell
We ate our breakfast burritos, went to building laptop seminars, gathered up as much schwagg as possible, watched Fatal1ty gun down dozens in Quake 4,drank our Bawls, and played Quake/Doom in the BYOC, getting little more then a few hours of sleep each night. We watched Kevin from G4 shoot his Quakecon segment live, and scoped out some girls that played games in tight clothes. Played Quake 4 before anyone else, got a sneak peek at doom the movie, Watched Carmack speak about the future, and stayed in a five star resort. (“”Even started the healing process on some old wounds“”.) We met gamers from all over the world and hung out with the best of the best.
But sadly, marking the end of Quakecon, [UAV] wondered into the longhorn center where just nights before I had won that video card, and watched the tournament finals. Quake 2, Miss Quakecon Q3, and Doom 3 all people who have amazing talent. “Top Prizes 25,000 dollars goes to Gopher”. Quakecon X 2005 will go down in my mind as one of the best times I have ever had. I can’t wait until Quakecon 2006.
Thanks for all the effort put forth by all the [UAV] members, espically Rev and Pep for driving.
!!!!!BOOM,.. HEAD SHOT!!!!!
But sadly, marking the end of Quakecon, [UAV] wondered into the longhorn center where just nights before I had won that video card, and watched the tournament finals. Quake 2, Miss Quakecon Q3, and Doom 3 all people who have amazing talent. “Top Prizes 25,000 dollars goes to Gopher”. Quakecon X 2005 will go down in my mind as one of the best times I have ever had. I can’t wait until Quakecon 2006.
Thanks for all the effort put forth by all the [UAV] members, espically Rev and Pep for driving.
!!!!!BOOM,.. HEAD SHOT!!!!!
Steal from the healthy and give to the sick.
Sorry its been soo long since my last post this past week has been one for the history books on terms of stuff that went on. I am stil trying to catch up on everything that went down, give me this evening, and I will get you the final saga of Quakecon tommorow, I just really need some sleep right now. If you want head over the the Official Panther LAN website. Just a little game convention I have been working on here in PV you remember the first.
What am I doing in college again?
Well its oficial professional gaming is now starting to take center stage in America, after lagging behind those counry's in Asia. Read the article here.
Incredible
Now I consider myslef a fairly good fisherman, and was simply amazed when I came across this article, featuring a nine foot, 700 pound catfish. No it's not fake!
Peave Love and Rockets part V.
Sure enough five hours later, after what would be a quick sleep catcher upper. I awoke to a black room full of travel hardened sleeping UAV members. “Wake them up”? My mind cautiously thought to itself. "No", if they wanted to be up they would be. I threw on my official Quakecon entry badge, and headed out the door. Leaving UAV to its slumber. Riding the elevator down from the third floor, anxiously awaiting so see Quakecon in full force, I stepped over the shaft gap a little quicker then normal.
The line of hundreds just hours before had now subsided to only a dozen or so gamers (probly from the Dallas Area), Lucky Bastards. Anyway as the main doors grew closer with each passing step the sound of thousands of excited gamers rang out louder and louder everywhere you looked there was someone ready to game.
A swift breeze of maximum air conditioning passed over my body as I stepped through the Quakecon main gate. It was official Quakecon had begun.
The smell of Artic silver permeated through air as the sound of thousand of 80mm fans filled the hall with their ambiance, cold cathode lights and led lit up the darkened exhibition hall. "Exellent", and "Impressive" rang out constantly over the gamers. Trash talk between dualing clans in the distance. This was truly the worlds greatest game event.
Bypassing the vender booths to get the computer booted up and ready to go I made “HASTE” to the sixth row where UAV had set just hours before. I pressed the round silver button atop my case, and all at once the power of 3ghz of cpu and video card burst into life, the red lights from inside seemed to call out “FRAGS”. Sitting down, basking in the power of my gaming machine I ready her for action.
A-while later the first of UAV entered the area it was Revstan (our best quake3 player) and with him we decided to go check out what the venders had to offer. nVIDIA, Ageia, Intel man free stuff galore shirts, pens posters, cpu’s ram cables everything. But one thing caught our eye and it was that of QUAKE 4. Now this is a game we have been waiting for about 5 years now. And lord behold this year there was a playable demo. We sat down at the quake 4 game computers and got our frag on. All I have to say is that this game when it is officially released is going to be the most awesome game of all time. (It was even made in Wisconsin by Raven). We played for a while and then let the already long line of people behind us give it a try. We retreated back to the UAV stomping grounds of row 6. There the rest of the clan sat setting up. Soon after buying our first cases of BAWLS, UAV was kicking some butt on the multiple servers of the Quakecon BYOC. We played straight until the opening ceremony sponsored by nVIDIA.
The opening ceremony was for all intensive purposes simply awesome, it consisted of people doing strange things for computer parts. Eating butter popsicles, Fish smoothies, eating worms, eating onions, holding onto a computer without letting go, the macareana for three hours. All was going great until they called for a Push up contest. “Oh god, a push up contest with a bunch of computer nerds against a navy guy” Man I could beat all of these guys without even thinking. Before I knew UAV had hoisted up into the air upon the throne of Quakecon (the chair I was sitting on) and carried me through the thick crowd of cheering gamers and green light to the front of the stage where I was chosen to contend for a nVIDIA 7800gt video card (valued at 550 dollars) and all I had to do was some pushups.
On my hands and knees I watched with a sense of pride at the other gamers as they one by one fell out of the competition. After five minutes of up downs. It was down to me and another guy. The announcer (a sergeant in the army) called for us to switch to diamond pushups. No problem my arms said. The crowd shouted at the top of their lungs for us to fall or keep going on, the green purple lights and black light illuminated the dark stage. A few more push ups and a couple of grunts later Cockat00 arose victorious with a new video card in his wings. And from then on was known as cockat00 the King of Quakecon for the chair performance.
UAV spent the rest of the night and most of the next day in the 6th row competing with the thousands of other gamers in the BYOC leaving only a few times for bathroom breaks or special evets.
The line of hundreds just hours before had now subsided to only a dozen or so gamers (probly from the Dallas Area), Lucky Bastards. Anyway as the main doors grew closer with each passing step the sound of thousands of excited gamers rang out louder and louder everywhere you looked there was someone ready to game.
A swift breeze of maximum air conditioning passed over my body as I stepped through the Quakecon main gate. It was official Quakecon had begun.
The smell of Artic silver permeated through air as the sound of thousand of 80mm fans filled the hall with their ambiance, cold cathode lights and led lit up the darkened exhibition hall. "Exellent", and "Impressive" rang out constantly over the gamers. Trash talk between dualing clans in the distance. This was truly the worlds greatest game event.
Bypassing the vender booths to get the computer booted up and ready to go I made “HASTE” to the sixth row where UAV had set just hours before. I pressed the round silver button atop my case, and all at once the power of 3ghz of cpu and video card burst into life, the red lights from inside seemed to call out “FRAGS”. Sitting down, basking in the power of my gaming machine I ready her for action.
A-while later the first of UAV entered the area it was Revstan (our best quake3 player) and with him we decided to go check out what the venders had to offer. nVIDIA, Ageia, Intel man free stuff galore shirts, pens posters, cpu’s ram cables everything. But one thing caught our eye and it was that of QUAKE 4. Now this is a game we have been waiting for about 5 years now. And lord behold this year there was a playable demo. We sat down at the quake 4 game computers and got our frag on. All I have to say is that this game when it is officially released is going to be the most awesome game of all time. (It was even made in Wisconsin by Raven). We played for a while and then let the already long line of people behind us give it a try. We retreated back to the UAV stomping grounds of row 6. There the rest of the clan sat setting up. Soon after buying our first cases of BAWLS, UAV was kicking some butt on the multiple servers of the Quakecon BYOC. We played straight until the opening ceremony sponsored by nVIDIA.
The opening ceremony was for all intensive purposes simply awesome, it consisted of people doing strange things for computer parts. Eating butter popsicles, Fish smoothies, eating worms, eating onions, holding onto a computer without letting go, the macareana for three hours. All was going great until they called for a Push up contest. “Oh god, a push up contest with a bunch of computer nerds against a navy guy” Man I could beat all of these guys without even thinking. Before I knew UAV had hoisted up into the air upon the throne of Quakecon (the chair I was sitting on) and carried me through the thick crowd of cheering gamers and green light to the front of the stage where I was chosen to contend for a nVIDIA 7800gt video card (valued at 550 dollars) and all I had to do was some pushups.
On my hands and knees I watched with a sense of pride at the other gamers as they one by one fell out of the competition. After five minutes of up downs. It was down to me and another guy. The announcer (a sergeant in the army) called for us to switch to diamond pushups. No problem my arms said. The crowd shouted at the top of their lungs for us to fall or keep going on, the green purple lights and black light illuminated the dark stage. A few more push ups and a couple of grunts later Cockat00 arose victorious with a new video card in his wings. And from then on was known as cockat00 the King of Quakecon for the chair performance.
UAV spent the rest of the night and most of the next day in the 6th row competing with the thousands of other gamers in the BYOC leaving only a few times for bathroom breaks or special evets.
25 hour Days
It’s been hard to post the last few days. Our NAVY unit has been volunteering down in Houston with the refugees. Man its hard work. Twelve hour days and all. It’s kind of hard to work around all the people with the stories you hear all of the time. It is really a mess down here right now; PV is accepting students from the New Orleans area so there are more MIDN as well as students coming to the unit. Wow it took some time but Katrina has caught up with us here in PV.
On a more happy not SyNONYM is now number one on Google search with the keywords gruening and synonym kind of cool. It has brought many new people to the site, you can tell from all of the mic. comments they have been leaving. Anyway I just got back from volunteering and am really tired I just need to get some sleep. Hopefully I can get the last Quakecon blogs done and then the first day of school and finally ill try to get one out about the efforts going on down here.
On a more happy not SyNONYM is now number one on Google search with the keywords gruening and synonym kind of cool. It has brought many new people to the site, you can tell from all of the mic. comments they have been leaving. Anyway I just got back from volunteering and am really tired I just need to get some sleep. Hopefully I can get the last Quakecon blogs done and then the first day of school and finally ill try to get one out about the efforts going on down here.
Good News for Application Developers
Here are some numbers taken from the industry about the average pay of computer programmers
This Just in
As I am just getting to the computer after a little excitement here at the navy building.
"Question number 4, calcululate the altitude of".......somebody call the fire department"...Out Naval weapons class was inturrupted, by Ensign Jones. Doumbfounded for a few seconds as to what had just happened we slowly moved into the hallway and out toward the door Ensign had just com in...... Looking through the already smoky windows we thought twice abut exiting the building but did so after a few seconds. Black smoke filled the air around the Prairie View A&M's Naval ROTC building. The heat of Texas was only being added to by Giant Flames rushing out of the ROTC mini van. Pictues to come. Explosions are cool.
"Question number 4, calcululate the altitude of".......somebody call the fire department"...Out Naval weapons class was inturrupted, by Ensign Jones. Doumbfounded for a few seconds as to what had just happened we slowly moved into the hallway and out toward the door Ensign had just com in...... Looking through the already smoky windows we thought twice abut exiting the building but did so after a few seconds. Black smoke filled the air around the Prairie View A&M's Naval ROTC building. The heat of Texas was only being added to by Giant Flames rushing out of the ROTC mini van. Pictues to come. Explosions are cool.
Reasons I'm Keeping My Obsolete Computer
11. I find it hard to concentrate without 20 fans running.
10. I needed a home for my dust bunnies.
9. My plans to open a computer museum, might just get venture capital someday.
8. Three more and I can host a LAN party.
7. The command line will make a comeback, and I want to be ready.
6. Maybe the burglars will steal the old one instead of the new one.
5. When you get a new friend, do you get rid of the old ones?
4. Where else could you get a space heater that also runs Seti@home.
3. It's not obsolete, it's previously functional.
2. So I can complain about how slow the new Microsoft operating system runs on it.
1. You never know when your first three computers go down and you need a fourth back up.
10. I needed a home for my dust bunnies.
9. My plans to open a computer museum, might just get venture capital someday.
8. Three more and I can host a LAN party.
7. The command line will make a comeback, and I want to be ready.
6. Maybe the burglars will steal the old one instead of the new one.
5. When you get a new friend, do you get rid of the old ones?
4. Where else could you get a space heater that also runs Seti@home.
3. It's not obsolete, it's previously functional.
2. So I can complain about how slow the new Microsoft operating system runs on it.
1. You never know when your first three computers go down and you need a fourth back up.
Ripe For the Pickn'
Ok I don't know how much tv everybody watches out there but hopefully you have seen the Fruit guys promoting Fruit of the Loom stuff well I have on a few occasions now and no mater how many times I see this I laugh "You can't overlove your underwear".
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